Las grandes estructuras del Renacimiento y el Barroco

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

Mallol is an architectural design center that functions under the lead of its director and promoter, Panamanian architect Ignacio Mallol Tamayo. This edition examines 25 year of professional operations of the largest architectural firm in Central America and illustrates, with more than 270 color images, representative examples of Latin American 21st century architecture, highlighting the firm's most representative buildings: Le Cube Mallol, one of the early designs (where Mallol plays with forms, space and symetry), a clear example of the type of large constructions that would later...

Este libro es el resultado de una doble apuesta por parte del Instituto del Agua y de las Ciencias Ambientales. Por una parte, trata de profundizar en la importancia del agua en el territorio europeo y, por otra, ampliar el abanico disciplinar desde el que se estudian los fenómenos asociados a los territorios marítimos, fluviales y humedales.La valoración del agua como elemento paisajístico en las ciudades y el territorio es relativamente muy reciente. El mar, los ríos y las zonas húmedas han sido tradicionalmente, bien un medio de comunicación con valor económico, o bien un problema...

Brief study of the rich architectonic and topographic expressions of the one-family houses and the collective dwelling constructed during the 20th century in México. During this post-Revolution period the mass options became models of good taste, functionality and technological possibilities for the growing urban spaces.